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Hi, everyone.
It's Christophe Choo from Coldwell Banker Previews in Beverly Hills.
Today I'm taking you somewhere different.
I'm taking you behind the gates
in Fremont place in Hancock Park.
Fremont Place is the only
gated community in the Hancock Park area.
Hancock Park is an older,
very established neighborhood here we're
in the center, central part of Los Angeles
between Beverly Hills and downtown.
It's become a very popular community
and Fremont especially because it's behind the gates.
There's about 60 or 80 homes altogether.
So it's one entrance gate
on Wilshire Boulevard going in and out,
and there basically are two main streets
that go north and south and
then two or three
small streets that go east and west.
So I thought I'd give you a little tour.
Prices here in Fremont are
about starting at around $3
million, up to about $10 million.
Mohammad Ali lived here at one point in time.
A lot of celebrities over the
years have lived here, and today's
world a lot of very
wealthy businesspeople who work
in downtown love to live
in Fremont because of security and
the privacy of the gated community.
And I talked about it
before that LA really does
not have a lot of gated
communities, which is a
shame because that seems to
be very very important, and frankly
after the riots back in
I think 1991 or whenever
that was, a lot of
the very wealthy Korean business
owners started migrating from
other parts of town and purchasing
homes here within the gates of Fremont Place.
Because literally Koreatown surrounds Fremont
south and east side.
And then we have Hancock Park proper
on the north, and then Beverly
Hills a few blocks to the west.
So it's become a
a very popular community for the
Korean community as well as many others as well.
Again Hancock Park was established
actually even prior to Beverly
Hills so the kind of
the really turn of
the century 1910, 1911,
1920's was a big big
time for people moving
into [xx] Park and I'm
not exactly sure when Fremont
was started, but it
probably was started right around
that era 1910-1920 funny, that's
kind of the era, because there
are some homes in here
that were built right around that time frame.
Really beautiful architecture.
I must say Park has some
really, really tremendous homes and
very beautiful homes and great architecture.
And there has not been as much
that "McMasionization" of the
house building like it's been
in the Beverly Hills west side areas.
So, you can
see back there, there's an apartment
building that backs up Freemont
on the north side over on Wilshire Boulevard.
So let's just one more little round.
It's kind of two streets that go around in a circle in the middle of Freemont.
So we'll just around through to the other side one more time.
Of course, the signature southern California palm trees, as you can see.
There's the entry guard house.
Years ago, right down that street
there, there was this little house my wife and I wanted to buy, which we didn't.
We live on the west side, and but
I thought I'd just show you that little street.
So there's some very, very large houses you can see.
Probably the maximum size house
here is about, oh I'm
guessing about 20,000 square feet is about the largest.
Here's another house.
Older Mediterranean that's being refurbished.
And luckily a lot of
people are buying these homes and then
bringing them back to their original splendor, which is really, really nice.
You'll see country English,
Mediterranean, Spanish hacienda.
There's all different styles of architecture here.
You don't see any modern homes.
There's really no contemporary or modern
style homes here in the Fremont Place area.
So we're gonna make a little U-turn and head on out the gates.
But I thought it'd be fun for
you to explore the neighborhood for a few minutes.
And actually the house we just
passed, it was in a movie back in the 90's.
War of The Roses, that's right.
I remember that.
I was working as an agent
originally here in this area,
Hancock Park, on Largemont Boulevard,
and so this
house over here, the red brick,
you can see it, was in
the movie The War of The Roses.
Back in those days it didn't have any hedge around.
There's a beautiful, beautiful Mediterranean I
saw a number of years ago
and they're doing lots of really
cool, what looks like
Halloween decorations out in the front.
It's kind of a mid-century 50s, 60s kind of single level ranch.
not many of those in here,
and as we come on down back
to the entrance it's the
really really beautiful Mediterranean on the side.
So if you want
to be, oh this, I love this French house, I saw that years ago.
It's absolutely stunning.
So if you want to be in
LA area, kind of between downtown and Beverly Hills.
Hancock Park may be your place.
And if you love gate communities, this particular
gated community of Fremont Place,
may be the perfect place for you to live.
So if you're looking to buy
or sell here in Los Angeles,or
Beverly Hills, give us a call at 310-777-6342.
And hope you enjoyed this tour.
Fremont Place